Ram Waeerkar

Ram Waeerkar at work in his home studio. Photo taken from an article by Fiona Fernandez in 2020 (Mid-Day)
Ram Waeerkar at work, Image taken from an article published in TOI in 2010 by Atul Sethi

Ram Waeerkar (1936 – 26 February 2003) was an Indian comics artist for the series Amar Chitra Katha, based on Indian mythology, history, and folklore. He illustrated the very first issue, 'Krishna' in 1969, and many others later. He was behind the art work for nearly 90 ACK titles.[1] In the 1980s he was an illustrator for Tinkle, a magazine edited by Anant Pai.[2] Here, he was the man behind the art of such iconic characters as Suppandi, Pyarelal, Nasruddin Hodja, Choru and Joru and many more.[3] Suppandi's head was illustrated as flat as he was supposed to have no brains.[1] Ram Waeerkar died in 2003, with comics on Chanakya and Vishwamitra as his last projects. His daughter Archana Amberkar has been an artist for Tinkle magazine ever since and his son Sanjiv Waeerkar too illustrated for Tinkle in the early 1990s.

  1. ^ a b "Ageless comic hero". Mid-day. 2020-04-19. Retrieved 2024-07-16.
  2. ^ "Ram Waeerkar at Lambiek.Net".
  3. ^ Comics Genius: Ram Waeerkar. Tinkle.